Ishtara Rothschild

...was a great and laudable idea, but -- as it so often happens -- the execution was lacking. It seems that the Marketplace, as well as the inworld delivery system behind it, pretty much broke down due to the overwhelming response of the SL community. I did not get my bear and assume that the transaction was rolled back. But instead of giving it another try (and another try, and then another one, like so many residents probably did), I will find a different channel to donate the money, because my own Marketplace sales are also suffering from the onslaught. The deliveries of other merchants are failing as well. It seems almost as if the new Marketplace would scale as badly as the SL grid itself. So while I wholeheartedly support the sentiment behind this fundraiser and Linden Lab's fast response to this disastrous RL event, I really hope that LL will take a different approach for future fundraisers that does not involve the apparently very fragile Marketplace. Alternatively, you could fix the Marketplace and the unreliable magic box delivery system. Which is not the only thing that needs fixing btw. While you're at it, it would be great if you could also give us the option to disable the sales confirmation spam (like we were able to do on XStreet), enable customer review notifications for merchants (which was another useful XStreet feature), and add a messaging system that allows customers to notify merchants in case of delivery failures (which is again something that XStreet already had). Furthermore, it would be great if the login process was automated or made compulsory, and the maturity rating preference should probably be the same that customers already chose in their SL client. Right now, the sales of mature and adult products are tanking due to the recent changes that were made to accomodate legal minors on this very adult platform. You might also want to automate the redelivery process, so that customers have other choices than giving us a one-star rating and a bad review (which merchants are currently not even being notified of). Thanks in advance.

It was a great and laudable idea, but -- as it so often happens -- the execution was lacking. It seems that the Marketplace, as well as the inworld delivery system behind it, pretty much broke down due to the overwhelming response of the SL community. I did not get my bear and assume that the transaction was rolled back. But instead of giving it another try (and another try, and then another one), I will find a different channel to donate the money, because my own Marketplace sales are also suffering from the onslaught. The deliveries of other merchant's products are failing as well. It seems almost as if the new Marketplace would scale as badly as the SL grid itself. So while I support the sentiment behind this fundraiser, I really hope that LL will take a different approach in the future. Alternatively, you could fix the Marketplace and the unreliable magic box delivery system. Which is not the only thing that needs fixing btw. While you're at it, it would be great if you could also give us the option to disable the sales confirmation spam, enable customer review notifications for merchants, and add a messaging system that allows customers to notify merchants in case of delivery failures. Furthermore, the login process needs to be automated or made compulsory, and the maturity rating preference has to be the same as the one that customers chose in their SL client. Right now, the sales of mature and adult products are tanking due to the recent changes that were made to accomodate legal minors on this very adult platform. You might also want to automate the redelivery process, so that customers are not left with the sole option of giving us a one-star rating and a bad review (which merchants are currently not even being notified of). Thanks in advance.

I completely agree. Every time I check on my product listings, there is another review with a one star rating that says "I did not get my item". This is so frustrating, especially since this is a screw-up of the Marketplace to begin with (I have several magic boxes in two different regions, so this is not a problem on my end). I'd like to be informed of reviews so that I can sort these things out with my upset customers and get a fair product rating. Also, when will it finally be possible to turn off sales notifications? This is both really urgent and very bothersome.

Why? Why do people use this viewer? I really don't get it. Download Phoenix or Imprudence, say goodbye to all your problems. It's that easy.

Why do people use viewer 2? I really don't get it.

Sigmund Leominster wrote: Thanks y'all for the suggestions! And thanks to the devils at Amazon for making it frighteningly easy to download "Neuromancer" (and yes, I admit it, I have not read it!) and "Rainbow's End." Guess I'll be spending less time in-world next week and spending more with my Kindle and coffee :smileywink: If you read Neuromancer, you're also in for the two follow-up novels "Count Zero" and "Mona Lisa Overdrive". Neuromancer can be read as a standalone story, and was originally meant to be one, but Gibson eventually decided to turn it into a trilogy. You'll probably also want to read the short story anthology "Burning Chrome", especially the story "Johnny Mnemonic" (which has been turned into a not-so-great movie with Keanu Reeves), to get some background on some of the characters in the Neuromancer trilogy.

"Ignore Danny Moderator" :smileyvery-happy: I love it! That button makes as much sense as the Report link next to the post of a moderator. Why do they add this functionality and then punish people for using it? ETA: I also got my first warning btw, for my 3rd Reich quip.

What is this I don't even

Void Singer wrote: I think people are focusing too much on the name, and not enough on the effect..... "ranks" as it were allow board managers to keep often abused tools like image posting, videos, etc out of the hands of accounts that just signed up, which makes it harder for the spammers to do their thing... Only that everyone can post images and videos. Besides, spammers rarely use anything other than text. Void Singer wrote: ... it also serves to point out the people that are well known for being helpful (and have probably been around the longest and are the most well versed at what they do) to all those newbs that pop up... So if someone with a Helper badge posts an answer, and I answer the same question with my orange Ms Nobody badge, I can be sure that my answer will be ignored. Why would I even bother posting? Void Singer wrote: ...as well as letting the board operators know that those are people whose suggestions for improvements are likely to be well thought out and not spurious thanks to experience with the available tools. No. Nothing against you, but just look at the higher ranked folks here. The prokodile and MP, just to name two of them. I for one am glad that the Lindens were listening to us orange nobodies, instead of those who were already a little more equal than us, when they decided to add this Off Topic forum and allow all of us to post youTube videos. I hope it stays this way.

Ima Rang wrote: Ishtara Rothschild wrote: I don't mind the ranks that much, but I'll try my best to remain unranked. I don't want people to look at my forum badge and think "whaddayaknow, grumpy old Ishtara went and tried to be helpful for once, only to gain special privileges". And I actually used to answer questions and post short tutorials every once in a while. But now I'll stay out of the kudos-enabled subforums. So at least in my case, the rank system does the exact opposite of what LL were probably trying to achieve. *shrugs* So I guess now would not be a good time to ask you how I can animate a mannequin? Oh, I still answer questions Just not in the grinding areas of the new forums. I'm guessing you mean a prim mannequin? I wrote my own prim animation scripts back in the day, but nowadays I'd just use Prim Puppeteer: https://marketplace.secondlife.com/p/Prim-Puppeteer-Prim-Animation-Kit-Vendor-Edition/176833 If you don't need the resulting scripts to be copy- and transferable, you can also go with the free version: https://marketplace.secondlife.com/p/Prim-Puppeteer-Prim-Animation-Kit-Vendor-Edition/176833 In case you meant an avatar mannequin, that can be done with a modified poseball script that plays a number of animations on a timer. Such as this one: // ignore all this initial stuff until you see another comment line like this onekey avatar;string animation;integer counter;default{ state_entry() { llSitTarget(<0,0,0.5>,<0,0,0,1>); llSetSitText("Pose"); llSetText("Pose",<1,1,1>,1); //you can change the hovering text in the quotes } changed(integer change) { if(change & CHANGED_LINK) { avatar = llAvatarOnSitTarget(); if( avatar != NULL_KEY ) { llRequestPermissions(avatar, PERMISSION_TRIGGER_ANIMATION); } else { llStopAnimation("stand"); llSetTimerEvent(0); llSetAlpha(1,ALL_SIDES); } } } run_time_permissions(integer perm) { if(perm) { llStopAnimation("sit"); llSetAlpha(0,ALL_SIDES); counter=0;// this is where it gets interesting. First change the time in the line below: llSetTimerEvent(10); //time between the animations in seconds } } timer() { llStopAnimation(animation); counter++;// then enter the names of your animation files like this: if (counter == 1) animation = "name of the first animation goes here"; else if (counter == 2) animation = "name of the 2nd animation"; else if (counter == 3) animation = "name of the 3rd, and so on"; else if (counter == 4) animation = "keep adding this line, and..."; else if (counter == 5) animation = "don't forget to change the counter number";// add additional 'else if' lines here as required. No further changes necessary else counter=0; llStartAnimation(animation); // forgot this line earlier } } Drop this script into a prim together with your animations, and change the script according to the instructions in the lines that begin with a double slash //. That's all Edited to add a line to the script. I forgot to actually play the animation. Sorry if anybody already tried it

Ciaran Laval wrote: DMom2K Darwin wrote: William Gibson's Neuromancer is a good one. Heavy going though, I love William Gibson but you really do need to be prepared to get into some heavy geeky stuff. The wild thing is that Gibson invented some of the geeky stuff and the geeky language in which he described it when he wrote Neuromancer (and the follow-up novels). He envisioned the internet before it existed in reality, coined the term cyberspace, and described firewall technology years before it was developed. Pretty much like Jules Vernes, who wrote about submarines and space flight in the 19th century.

Wilhiam Hydraconis wrote: @ Ishtara : Heh .. you already once stated you like those textures, I hope it's safe to say the house is made by *** Old World *** . The furniture was made by ~Dirty Rat~ . If you like I will pass you the LMs inworld when you are online. [...] That would be great I'm offline (trying to persuade myself to do the dishes), but you can send them anyway. Thanks in advance

Strawberries? I didn't see any strawb... oh, there. I didn't even notice them. (I was looking at her hair all the time, wondering where she bought it. Honestly!)

Here's a deaf leopard for you. (He's deaf because you're SHOUTING ALL THE TIME, in case you were wondering).

Thanks ^.^

Mags Indigo wrote: Ishtara Rothschild wrote: Now that's a rank that I wouldn't mind earning Reverse psychology at work. You're just one of those 'anarchists' - and a pink one too... Ohhh and it's pixie not elf - sorry for all the offence in prior posts when I referred to you as a pink elf thingy. From now on I shall strive to be accurate - so it's 'pink pixie thingy' I guess. *Smiles innocently :smileyhappy: No worries, elf or pixie doesn't really make a difference to me I respond to both, and I don't really role play either one. The elf ears are just a fashion statement for me, and an attempt to look somewhat unique in combination with the pink skin and blue hair (the gender-related symbolism of those colors is just a nice coincidence btw. I tried a golden-orange look first, but in the end I liked this better).

This reminds me of the breast physics in Emerald / Phoenix.

Also, crack jokes about the time when your hair and/or shoes would end up being stuck in your butt after teleporting. That can be nicely illustrated. Just make a copy of your shoes and hair and attach it to hips or pelvis, then switch it during the show. That's bound to get some laughs out of long-time residents. And don't forget to play the head-up-your-butt posture, which used to be a common glitch.

/me waves back at Jaen

Garrett Laramide wrote: <...> Oh, and to worship Rioko's boots. Her boo... oh. Boots. I misread that. Nevermind, carry on.

Greg Egan's Diaspora is definitely worth reading. It describes the possibility of human life, or rather afterlife, as an AI within a virtual world, as well as other forms of posthuman existence. The inhabitants of Egan's hypothetical virtual world can even procreate by programming new AIs with a human personality. It's pretty wild. Not exactly or only about virtual worlds, but also a masterpiece of the cyberpunk genre: John Shirley's eclipse trilogy (Eclipse, Eclipse Penumbra, and Eclipse Corona). Very dark and gritty, with many parallels to the Iraq war and Blackwater (unintentionally, seeing that the author wrote the novels in the 1980's and 90's). Vacuum Flowers by Michael Swanwick is also worth a read.

Qie Niangao wrote: These ranks are very strange things anyway. They "unlock" some privileges that, at the higher levels, seem almost completely unrelated to the activities that elevate those ranks. I guess I can imagine that posting YouTube videos might be something to gateway based on such automatic metrics as number of posts, login time, etc. But being able to edit Knowledge Base articles? I find it very difficult to believe that such permissions are granted automatically anyway; they certainly shouldn't be. As an incentive to contributions, I don't think the visible role titles serve much purpose. Indeed, it seems to me that they motivate exactly the sort of folks one wouldn't really want to have elevated permissions. Some sort of "honorifics" ( "awards", "badges", ...) have proven useful for promoting positive contributions in crowd-sourced content sites such as Foursquare or even Stack Overflow. And there need to be permission gateways here. The current role structure, however, combine those two objectives in a way that seems unlikely to satisfy either of them. I assume that the ranks were meant to drive the former GD and Commerce crowd into other forum areas in order to gain abilities that are ever popular in the social forums, such as posting music videos. Swords into ploughshares, or in this case critics and trolls into CS volunteers. (CS = customer service, not cybersex or counterstrike).

Kelinda wrote: Couldn't we give the rank of "Troll" to anyone caught behaving badly? Now that's a rank that I wouldn't mind earning Reverse psychology at work.

I don't mind the ranks that much, but I'll try my best to remain unranked. I don't want people to look at my forum badge and think "whaddayaknow, grumpy old Ishtara went and tried to be helpful for once, only to gain special privileges". And I actually used to answer questions and post short tutorials every once in a while. But now I'll stay out of the kudos-enabled subforums. So at least in my case, the rank system does the exact opposite of what LL were probably trying to achieve. *shrugs*

Victor1st Mornington wrote: That looks fantastic. The other buildings too, but this is especially realistic imho. Great lighting and ambiance too.